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a few from the sketchbook
here’s a few from the sketchbook one brush pen a couple colored pencil the colored pencil ones inspired by an episode of American pickers love that show
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the couch cushion timelapse
here’s the timelapse of the couch cushion strip from a few days ago the process usually goes like this: i see a moment in real life that i think will work for the strip: in this case it was watching little guy move the cushion so he could sit down on the couch…
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birdsong
I walked on the grey sidewalk back to the parking lot of the physical rehab facility where they were trying to get my mom’s body back in shape, even as the cancer continued to consume her, to consume everything, when I heard it: a bird song so clear and melodic that I stopped to find…
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timelapse of the easter strip
color was really important in this strip (i mean, color is always important for me, and i kind of sweat it when coloring the strip, but color was especially important to the storytelling of this particular strip) i don’t think this strip could have worked in black and white (and some of my past strips…
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paper towel roll timelapse
here’s about 45 minutes of drawing compressed into about 45 seconds if you watch closely you can see how lazy i am once i get a good drawing i recycle it in all the panels and just adjust what i need to
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popcorn sketches from the sketchbook
maybe the most important part of doing the strip is figuring out the timing when trying to do that my sketches can look more like the diagrams you see in the top half of the page then comes figuring out the props like the chair you see in the bottom half of the page I…
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search timelapse
here’s the screen capture of me working on the ‘search’ strip from a few days ago i also reorganized the ‘comics’ menu item so it is just finished strips now. no process videos or sketches making it easier to scroll through past strips without all that junk in the way so if the sketches, videos, and…
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jeong kwang making kimchi
watching chef’s table season 3 episode 1 korean monk jeong kwang making kimchi
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paper towels
hey kids! comics! a new strip for today it’s been 11 days since the last strip way too long but now the wait is over well, kind of now you have to wait for the next one or read them all here while you wait
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procrastinating sketchbook post
No time or energy for a finished strip So you get this sketchbook sketch which isn’t a strip yet Which is definitely the opposite of how it usually works but I’m tired I hope doing it this way doesn’t take away the punch from the eventual strip when I get to it
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zipper comic timelapse
it is hard to wear a zipper sweater and carry him because he likes to zip up the zipper and catch my neck skin in it i don’t know if that came across in the strip or not not only were the drawings difficult for me on this one, but so was the ‘timing’ of…
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timelapse of recent visiting the grandparents comic
some days you just dont feel like you can draw i think the outstretched arm of grandpa gets lost amongst the squiggles here you’re seeing about an hour and a half go by in about a minute
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popcorn timelapse
lot of struggle in this one replacing panels figuring out the timing figuring out the color
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eagles dad
for the last few months i’ve felt pretty energized, creatively speaking (i’d been reading lynda barry’s syllabus, and i think that gave me quite a bit of fuel and confidence, both) for the last few weeks my creative juices are feeling lower i havent been putting out as many strips this month, and for some…
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article zines
I’ve been trying to get away from screens recently So I’ve been taking the longread articles from the internet that I want to read and making a zine out of them Feels both nerdy and oldmanish but reading them is a pleasure Here’s the original article if you want to read it You might recognize…
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more sketches from the sketchbook
here’s a few more sketches from the sketchbook while i work on the next strip
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putting together the pepper strip timelapse
what’s great about this timelapse is it shows how nothing came easy on this one and when i saw little guy trying to grind pepper with the pepper shaker at the restaurant i thought i had it made but then i realized i needed to show all of the other times he saw…
